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Designs: A Global Guide 2020

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A simple, easy-to-use digest of some of the main issues involved in the protection, enforcement and exploitation of designs.

Country chapters

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Canada

Smart & Biggar
Christine Genge and Nora Labbancz

Protecting and enforcing design rights: China

Lung Tin Intellectual Property Agent Ltd
Yan Huang

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Germany

Krieger Mes & Graf v der Groeben
Jens Künzel

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Greece

Dr Helen G Papaconstantinou and Partners Law Firm
Maria Athanassiadou

Protecting and enforcing design rights: India

LexOrbis
Omesh Puri

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Israel

Naschitz Brandes Amir & Co
Asa Kling

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Japan

Shiga International Patent Office
Hirohisa Suzuki

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Mexico

Becerril Coca & Becerril SC

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Russia

Gorodissky & Partners
Nikolay Bogdanov and Alexander Vasilets

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Switzerland

Beutler Künzi Stutz AG

Protecting and enforcing design rights: United Kingdom

Elkington and Fife LLP
Chris McLeod

Protecting and enforcing design rights: United States

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd
Robert S Katz and Alisa S Abbott

Protecting and enforcing design rights: Spain

PADIMA
Iván Sempere Massa

Special focus

Policing global markets for designs infringement

GLP Intellectual Property Office
Davide Luigi Petraz , Carmela Barilà and Arianna Dalla Longa

EU design case law – another challenge for the car industry?

Kuhnen & Wacker
Christian Thomas

Designs and the impact of visibility: what you see is what you get

Laurent & Charras
Julien Scicluna

Designs – protecting fashion in the United States with IP rights

McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd
Christopher V Carani and Dunstan H Barnes

Recent design revisions in Japan

TMI Associates
Koji Akanegakubo and Miwa Hayashi